~ ABORT id+ | THAT WHICH FAILS TO ARISE |
| TO COME TO NOTHING |
lat ABORTION = SUPPRESS INTERRUPT
AB NOT
ORIRI TO RISE ARISE
APPEAR SPRING
med> PREMATURE END of a PREGNANCY or
GESTATION either by
SPONTANEOUS or INDUCED ABORTION
also called FETICIDE or FETOCIDE
~ ABORTUS biol> med> DEAD EMBRYO or FETUS or
STILLBORN
EMBRYO denotes the STAGE PRIOR TO
THE FORMATION OF THE PLACENTA
MOST ABORTIONS ARE CAUSED BY
INTRINSIC FETAL DEFECTS and are most often
due to "BIRTH DEFECTS" a popular term which
includes in its scope
STRUCTURAL and FUNCTIONAL CONGENITAL ANOMALIES
due to GENETIC and ENVIRONMENTAL or
TERATOGENIC CAUSES see> TERATOS
TERATOGENIC = MALFORMATION CAUSING
TERATOTHANASIA SPONTANEOUS or
NATURAL ELIMINATION OF
DEFECTIVE FETUSES or
NATURAL FETAL EUTHANASIA
THANATOS DEATH sug> ATHANASIA
TERATOLOGY STUDY OF MALFORMATIONS
note 50% OF ABORTIONS ARE DUE TO
CHROMOSOME DEFECTS implying that
such defects are THANATOPHORIC or LETHAL
myth> note THANATOS or sug> MORTAL
MORS who had a twin HYPNOS
ply> | to most MORTALS HYPNOS
offers reversible SLEEP to some THANATOS offers
permanent or THANATOPHORIC SLEEP |